Word: recklessness
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...with a small cache of supplies and the modest remains of his savings account, and rolled out of his Columbia, Mo., home in search of the forgotten land. Life's desperate moments are terrifying but also exhilarating, for they open up the vast possibilities of reckless abandon. Jobless, wifeless, and 38 years old--"an age that carries its own madness and futility"--Least Heat Moon "took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected...
Later, more reckless radicals, with less patience for theories and manifestos, linked universities to the planning and execution of the Vietnam War. They vowed to raze academia along with the rest of the Establishment to permit a "fresh start" for American society. In April 1969, a Marxist splinter group of the fast deteriorating SDS led a forceful takeover of Harvard's University Hall, telling the majority of the campus leftists, who had opposed the occupation. "You and the administration are the same thing, and we will smash you both...
...SUCH RECKLESS WAGE AND PRICE increases inevitably translate into cost overruns. Cost overruns in defense procurement have been so huge for so long that they've almost lost their power to shock--but not quite. In the past 30 years, only 10 percent of all new weapons systems have been brought in under budget. Between March and July, the cost of one system--the Maverick air-to-ground missile--increased by 25 percent. McDonnell-Douglas told the Navy last month that the cost of another new weapon, the F-18 fighter, would increase by a third from its original price...
...breakdown of a wheel assembly is still thought to be the fundamental cause of the derailment, Illinois Central Gulf has fired all five employees who were aboard the train, including the conductor and the flagman. Byrd, Robertson and Reeves have been arrested by Louisiana authorities on criminal charges of reckless handling of hazardous materials...
Although the booters had more success bringing the ball into Penn's end in the final period, the Quakers almost reckless defending prevented any clear chances...